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at the base. Maximum diameter of the body appears to have been 

 about 22 cm., the height perhaps 33-35 cm. 



All the cord-roughened rimsherds from the site, except those cer- 

 tainly from the above jar, show vertical impressions. Two are from 

 vessels whose walls, instead of flaring outward at the rim, would 

 seem to have converged in an even curve from the zone of greatest 

 diameter. The cord-marks are generally fine and distinct. 



Aside from this vessel only 22 cord-roughened body sherds were 

 found. These are mostly gray in color, with well marked surface 

 impressions. Several, however, are a buff-orange, are so thickly 

 tempered with fine sand as to give a sandpaperlike surface, and have 

 had the cord-impressions rubbed, worn, or weathered almost to the 

 point of obliteration. I do not know with what type of rim and ves- 

 sel shape these are to be associated. 



Somewhat more common, judged by the number of sherds, was a 

 slightly harder and better ware resembling the foregoing in paste 

 and tempering, but lacking the cord-roughening. An occasional 

 sherd shows what seem to be nearly obliterated cord impressions at 

 the neck. There are no whole or restorable vessels, but a number of 

 rims of varying size were collected (pi. 6, a-c). The exterior is gen- 

 erally smoothed, rarely with a slipped or slip-like surface. More 

 often the surfaces have a gritty feel and sand particles are visible. 

 Punched bosses commonly occur on the exterior surface 20 to 25 

 mm. below the lip, with vertical stroked (i. e., shallow incised) or 

 stamped units betv/een lip and bosses (Wedel, 1938, pi. 3, F). The 

 neck area below the bosses is usually plain, though one specimen has 

 vertical dentate stamp impressions. The rims seem to have been 

 straight or slightly flaring, but with a tendency to curve inward at 

 the top (fig. 4, a, h, c). They are usually fairly heavy (ca. 8-14 mm. 

 thick), and in many cases the curvature along the lip is so slight as 

 to suggest that they were once affixed to large vessels. My guess, 

 which is without any direct support whatsoever, is that the jars were 

 amphora-shaped, ovoid in vertical cross section, perhaps with more 

 or less conoidal bases. 



Much n^ore abundant than either of the preceding, and probably 

 quite characteristic of the site, are sherds from vessels such as that 

 illustrated in pi. 4, a. There are no complete or restored pots in our 

 series, but the general shape, approximate size, and appearance can 

 be inferred from the evidence at hand. The partially restored speci- 

 men figured, uncovered in a pit during road grading, is owned by 

 Mr. Shippee. It stands 43 cm. high, with a maximum body diameter 

 of 34 cm. The neck is plain; the body, ovoid in vertical section, is 

 covered with bands of edentate rocker impressions separated from the 

 neck by a single incised line. Large slierds found by us, evidently 

 from similar vessels, show the type of rim and rim decoration asso- 



